The old chief and the new one
OFF he went again before Easter, shuttling between South Africa and Zaire, and on to a regional summit in Togo, trying to spread a bit of reconciliation beyond his country's borders. The conciliator in question? Not Nelson Mandela, but Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's deputy president and increasingly the man who really runs it.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “The old chief and the new one”
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